In the play, the action takes place not in mythopoetic Ireland, but in modern America. McDonagh delivers a daring, ironic, hilariously funny and, indeed, eminently American story. Here they shoot, threaten with explosions, throw severed hands, and all because 27 years ago Carmichael from Spokane, under mysterious and incredible circumstances, lost his hand, which over all these years he has been manically trying to get back... But the comic intrigue is further complicated by the fact that assistants and For a short period of time, Bezruky’s opponents in his endless American journey are an African American selling marijuana, his white girlfriend and a schizophrenic receptionist.